Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining The Star of Kazan is a timeless classic for readers young and old.
In 1896,in a pilgrim church in the Alps,an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home,and Annika grows up in the servants'quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors. She is happy there,but dreams of the day when her real mother will come to find her.
And sure enough,one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the door. After years of guilt and searching,Annika's mother has come to claim her daughter,who is in fact a Prussian aristocrat whose true home is a great castle. But at crumbling,spooky Spittal,Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her new-found family...
Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9781447265726Number of pages: 400Weight: 276 gDimensions: 197 x 131 x 35 mm
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'This year (thanks to a recommendation by Ella Risbridger on Instagram,of all places) I have binged on Eva Ibbotson,not her children's books,but her elegantly written,witty and well-observed if (after a few) formulaic fables of emigrees with beautiful burnished hair fallen on hard times. I read one after another,and rather feel your Christmas might be brightened by doing the same. So may I suggest A Song for Summer, followed by The Morning Gift,then The Secret Countess,A Company of Swans,Magic Flutes,Journey to the River Sea,and The Star of Kazan.'- Nigella Lawson
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